Davidson's extension of Tarskian semantics to natural language shows that compositional truth conditions explain the productivity and systematicity of language in ways that inferential-role accounts have not matched.
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Language as people actually speak and write it (like English or French), rather than artificial systems created for specific purposes.
Productivity (of language)(as a feature of language that needs explaining)
The ability of language to create unlimited new meaningful sentences by combining existing words in new ways.
Systematicity (of language)(as a feature of language that needs explaining)
The organized, rule-based way that language works—if you understand certain words and grammar rules, you can understand novel sentences you've never seen before.
Tarskian semantics(as a framework for understanding language meaning)
A theory of meaning created by logician Alfred Tarski that explains how words and sentences become true or false by connecting them to facts about the world.